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THEIR FINEST HOUR

Climax Raid On London

to

and

By Winston Churchill

bearm

to bo

to

Good Morning!

"Cdrk to Float new Housing Loan," says a idadline from Ire- land. Very suitable.

An American firm hos sued the Central Bank of Chinn. Much more of this and extra printing presses will have to be set up.

·

Wot Fo?

contemporary:

mice, and she said. "I won the times the Queen was present. On afterwards learnt, had thought his The stuly the simple British Must be that Ivory tower of the

SO

These

the

pach

our-

dili.

But.

During the last week of Novemments muinmitted to subie dacy-montioned, without being able to halves of the spilt

and

Sheffield.

and

A

One suspicious 11KDF ap-

“Arc you Burc plicant:

this

reunion dinner

mort

On November 15 the

The German back enemy switched

Southern England. nirmien had only to fly along one London with a very heavy

beam until he delected the areand. in full raid

moonlight, ruins of Whitehall. His Majesty | factory, but they could certainly then drop his bombs, Much damage was done, es- had a shooting range made in the hit a city or town. No langer Q.E.D.1

churches pecially to

and hickingham Palace garden, at therefore had we only to fear the

With their logical minds and members of moonlight nights, in which at other monuments. The next which he and other

nny his family and

erries rate our fighters couki zo, as well deliberato large-scale planning,

In n Hending target was Birmingham, and his three successive raids from practised assiduously with pistols as the enemy, but we must oven the Germann High Air Command

thair fortuner <tnikol

in this "Music is Only Love, says Ms Presently 1expect the heaviest attacks to, tommy-guns.

Is that al!? November 19 to 22. inflicted brought the King an American delivered in cloud and fog.

sphere on a device which, like the Truman." much destruction and loss of short-range carbine, from a num- Lindemann told me also that magnetle mine, they thought would life. Nearly 800 people wereber which had been sent to me, there was a way of heading the do us in.

According to the Siapuse po- we acted at once, but I killed and over 2,000 injur-This was a very good weapon.

Therefore they did not trouble Bee, 40 gendarmes pumped 100 must see some of the sclentials, eslut the life and spirit of

Our Meal for their intra- the ordinary bomber. ixtilofs into a Chh

Chhese before. he Birmingham survived this About this time the King of Intelligence Research at the Air pilots, as ours had been trafitat, Bugeiterca, ve bitch led if ordeal.

changed his practice of receiving Ministry, Dr. R. V. Jonist, a formuerte dieult art of navigation. A to this," he grunted,

far simpler

and surer, When I visited the 'elty a dayine in a formal weekly audience at pupil of hle at Oxford. Accordingly toning itself to drill and or two Inter to inspect its factoria,bent five o'clock which hard pre- with anxious mind I convened on and see for myself what had lang. vailed during my first two months June 21 a special meeting in the numbers, producing results whole- "Sun Fo returning to Canton pened, un incident, to me charm-af office. It was now arranged that Cabinet Room, at which about 15 saio by irresistible science, attract

their soon." minds and every persons were present, including ed alike their in, occurred. It was the dinner-I should lunch with him

The German pilots fol- certainly a Sir Hoar, Tizard and various Air nature. hour, and a

young Tuesday. This was very pretty

an the German German girl in up to the car and threw a very agreeable meliad of trans-Force commanders A few minutes lowed the lam

followest

the Fuehrer. Chang Chi Chung is reported Box of elgars Into it. I stopped at acting State business, and some late, a youngish man-sho, as [

had nothing else to follow.

to be the "guest" of Chiang Kai- forewarned and

and neting shek "ht a sightseeing tower." Soviet foreign policy can be prize this werk for the highest several occasions we all had to audden sumatons to the Cabinet Rom must be a practical joke..

on the instaut. expected to be full of shifts output. only heard you were take our plates and ginases in our

hour ago." The gift hands and go down to the shelter,hurried in and took his sent at

had the answer. By erecting the gino's. gift which was making progress,

to the bottom of the table. According proper stations in and strategems during the coming an

time good

in two or three

Anish our meal.

weekly to plan, I

I invited him to open the our own country, we could jam the eming weeks as a result of must have cost her

pounds. I was very hud (in my ins

Plan to put Japan under elvit beam. This would, of course, have contral is denied. No Escap. discussion. in- the recent changes in the fomical expacity) to give her a luncheons became a regular

stitution. After Kremlin hierarchy. All these kiss. I then went on to see the long such his Majesty decided that bints had been coming from all by the enemy. There was another

first few For some months,

realined he told us, been almost immediately shifts will have the same nim mass grave in which many

excluded sorts of sources on the Continent and superior alternative We ---to confuse the Western citizens and their children had been servants should be

and that we should help

that the Germans had some novel could put n repenting device in Powers and sow doubt andgun shone brightly, and its

newly buried. The spirit of Birm

selves and help

mode of night-bombing on which such a other.

position that it strengthen-

172 | isn't just another excuse for a they placed great hopes. In some ed the signal from one half of the division among them. If the million inhabitants, highly During the four and

and a half years the this continued became way it esemed to be linked with the split beam and not from the other. West is to resist these tactics,ganised. conscious and Compre- that

aware of the extraordinary

code-word Knickebein which our Thus the hostile pilot, trying to it must hold firm in its basic bending, rode high above their phy-aware of

Intelligence had with which the King rend Pion

severni times dy so that the signals from both

The crossing of the Yangise claims and must allow leat suffering.

to the benm were would, according

Com- all the telegrants and Bathing to deflect it from the ber and the beginning of December the British Constitutional

kim Under explain,

equal, would be deflected from the munist Press, put an end to fur-

course. At first it had been thought that true

The system

cataract of ther double crossing. rapid building up of a strong the weight of the attack shifted to the Sovereig

bad system of Western security, the verts. Bristol, Southampton insiginted with everything beacons in our cities

Sovereign has a right bothe

got agents to plant bombs which would have shatter- on which ed, or at least tormented, a city, The West must press forward

above ali Liverpool wered

their bombers could home; but this would fall 15 or 20 miles away in Communisis

130 know Later on, Fly-for which bis Ministrimited iden had proved untenable. Some to achieve full agreement on

about electioneering than a pig, an open field, has an the Atlantic Pact; it must my bombed.

Manchester, sponsible,

weeks before two or three curious

Perhaps that's why Being mester, and not having to says G.B.S. and other muni-ight of giving counsel to his squat towers had been phate-argue too much, once I was con- they get stymied so often,

Gov vigorously co-ordinate and tion centres passed

Leeds, Glasgow

ernment. I was most careful that through the

graphed In odd positions near the vinced about the principles of this perfect its common defencere undaunted. It did not matter everything should be laid before coast. They did not seem the right queer and deadly game, I gave all preparations; and it must con-where the blow truck, the nation he frequently showed that he had radio or radar. Nor were they in in June for the existence of the him, and at our weekly meeting shape for arry known form of the necessary orders that very dav tinue its joint efforts to pro-was as sound us the sea in ault.

mastered papers which I had not mote economie recovery.

yet dealt with, It was a great heln Places which could be explained beam to be assumed, and for all home for Chiang Kai-shek, which World Gapes If the West can demonstrate

The climax raid of these weeks to Britain to have so good a King

Jone's Tale its ability to defend itself and fell back to London on Sunday, and Queen in those fateful years,

Recently n German bomber had

Led Astray its determination to stand (December 20. All the painfully and as a convinced unholder of

constitutional and limited mon-been shot down with apparatus four square against either athered German experience, was cons threats or deceitful blandish-expressed on this occasion. It was archy I valued as a signal honour which seemed more elaborate than

About August 23 the Arat new from Moscow, the an incendiary classic. The weight the gracious intimacy with which was required for niglit-landing by

of the attack was concentrated as first Minister, was treated, the ordinary Lorenz beam, which Knickobeln stations, near Diappe world may at last see a genu-upon the City of London itself. It for which I suppose there has been appeared to be the only known use and Cherbourg, were brained on

for which it might be intended. Birmingham, and

An Engilsh newspaper reports A inrge-scale ine change in Soviet foreign was timed to meet the dead-low.jno precedent since the days of this and various other reasons, night offensive began. We had, or that a town crler has retired and

water hour.

The water-malus era Queen Anne and Marlborough dur-For policy.

broken at

at the outset very heavy ine his years of power..

which he wove together into a course, our teething troubles" to will not be replaced. The PRO When that change comes explosive

Scientific Devices

cumulative argument, it looked as Kalckebein beams were deflect.

but within a few days Economy campaign continues. the Western nations will not

1,500 fires chute-mine.?

to be fought.

If the Germans might to planning the be slow to reveal their readi-The

This instalment is taken from a to navigate and bomb on some sorted or jammed, and for the damage to railway stations ness to co-operate in building and docks was serious. Eight Wrenthaler caled "The Wizard War,

A few days two months, the criticat months In which Mr. Churchill pays high before under cross-examination on of September and October, the holding a man at arm's length

of system of beams.

For a girl, courtship consists of the foundations of

were destroyed or

a German pilot has Germna bombers wandered around while getting there lines peace.

fire by faith and goodwill must come Cathedral was only

and

blast, and St. Paul's Lord Cherwell) for interpreting

saved by herole him the Importance of the many had heard that something of the or else being actually led astray. from the Russian side before exertions. A vold, of ruin at the scientific devices evoked during the sort was in the wind. Such was One instanco

stanco huppered to come any progress can be hoped for very centre the British world

of

to my notice. An pificer in this direction. Russia must supes upon us to this day. But Ruder was constant and unceasing there was a

in my Progress in every branch off When Mr. Jones had finished Defence Office sent his wife and when end the

the

general King

and Queen visited

nir of in two young children Berlin blockade, the scene they were received with during 1939, but even so the Battle credulity. One high authority asked during de Ldren to the country which is still a threat to enthusiasm

of Britain, from July to Septont-why the Germans

should

miles

town away from any far exceeding any ber, 1940, was, as I have described, ible, when they had at their | series of enormous, explanlons⋅ 90-ƒ...... peace, and must cease her at-Royal

assuming such a thing was were much astonished to see a Durastival.

fought mainly by eye and car. tempts to gain control-over-

this prolonged ordeal of comforted myself at first in these disposal all the ordinary facilities curring throu other countries by subversion which several months were still to months with the hope that the fore of navigation. Above 20,000 feet counted over

fields away,

They 100, heavy hombe. and intimidation before the come, the King was constantly at and mist and cloud which accom the stars were

what the GormANS nearly always Buckingham

wonderet Palace. Proper shel pant free peoples of the West can

the British winter lors were being constructed in the shroud the Island with a mantle Inboriously trained in mavigation, God they were spared. The officer

and visible. All our own pilots were

aiming at, and thanked enter confidently into negotia-basement, but all, this took time. would at least give a great mea-and it was thought they found mentioned the incident the next tions for a settlement of pre- Also it happencil several times sure of protection against accurate their way about and to their tar day, inst sent differences.

that his Majesty arrived from bombing by day and still more in

50 closely was the Windsor in the middle of an air-darkness.

very well. Other round the secret kept, so narrow was the raid. Once he and the Queen had For

table appeared concerned. circle, so highly specialised the in- Dome time the German a very narrow escape. I have his bombere had navigated largely by of terms which I personally can planation could be given to him, I will now explain in the kind formation, that no satisfactory ex- Lajesty's permission to record the radio beacons. Scores of these were understand how the German beam oven in his intimate position. The incident in his own words: planted like Ughthouses in various worked and how we twisted it very fow who knew exchangod

Friday, September 13, 1940, parts of the Continent, each with Wo went

the celestial grins. searchlight beam. Like the to London (from its own cali-sign, and the Germans

The German radio beam ennnot be made very Windsor) and found an air raid uning ordinary directional wirekes, sharp; it tends to spread; but if suspected that their beams

The day progress

was very could fix their position by cloudy and it was raining hard. angles from which any two of these method is used, considerable ac- that during these two monthe no-

what is called the "split beam" being mauled, The Queen and 1

I went upstairs transmissions came,

Lnt te body had the courage to toll Goer-

ments

werd

on any such hypothesis.

counter-measures to solute priority.

receive ab-

The "Officers' Moral Endeavour Association" is looking for a new

will give him "the complete pri- vacy he desires." That clamour- Ing voice from the back row was no other than our old friend, Mao Tse-tung.

But proof of good aged, The Guildhall was smitten fribute to Prof. Lindemann (no broken down and admitted that ho) England bombing by guesswork, round his neck.

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Imagine which wo parallel to ond sitting uso my usu

room called owing to

broken windows the to the former bomb

damage.)

by

* "ons."

nas

they

air

crews Boon svere

There is a story

two scorchlight-beansing that his boamy were twisted another, both or jammed. In his horancs he "These picked up flickering in such a way that the pledged himself that this was im signais, amplified left-hand boam samca on exactly possible, Special

lectures All them, and sent them out again from and vice vrea. If an attack- German Alr Force, aasuring them when the right-hand beam

delivered to the goes warnings were

the that the bosan was infallible, and

of a sudden we heard the zoom- somewhere in England. The result

centre between the two beams the

Ko

BBY,

ana

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and

Ing noise of a diving aircraft was that the Germans, trying to ing alteraft was exactly in the that anyone who cast doubt on it) getting louder and louder, and home on their beams, were

were often then saw two bombs falling past led astray, and a number of hostilo

pilot's the opposite side of Buckingham aircraft were lost in this manner. y illuminated, but if continuous- would be at once thrown out.

if it Palace into the Quadrangle. We Certainly one Gorman bomber little bit to the right, nearer

(Cantinued on the saw the flashes and heard the landed voluntarily in

in Devonshire, centre detonations as they burst, shout thHowever, in June I received a the pilot would observe the flicker-

of the

right-hand beam, this it was France.

would become the stronger and 80 yards away.

The Dangers

painful shock. Professor Linde ing light, which was no guide. the windows lieved the Germans were prepar- he avoided the flickerings he would mann reported to mo that he be By keeping in the position where blast blow in opposite to us, and two great ing a device by means of which be flying exactly down the middle, erators had appear of these day or night whatever the weather. is exactly equal. And this middle Would be able to bomb by where the light from both beams Quadrangle. From one craters water from a burst main It now appeared that the Germans path would guide him to the tar-

pouring out and flowing into had developed a radio beam which, get.

Mr. Nehru's outspoken speech in the Indian Assem- bly on the activities of Com-

ernment is now facing much the same difficulties as those which confronted General MacArthur In Japan last year. Like their Japanese comrades, Indian Communists have penetrated a trade union movement which has still to find its feet, and are encour- aging strikes designed to throw the national economy into confusion. The Govern- ment of India is threatened with a railway strike that The would paralyse the free move- TEL. 28831ment of commodities which is now essential if famine is to be prevented in some parts of the country, and if econo- mic distress is to be alleviated in others. In India, as in Japan, Communist tactics have forced the authorities to amend labour laws so that power can be taken to pre- vent atrikes in essential public. services.

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